A misadventure and more Christmas Album

When the first sunday of advent is in November I always start my christmas journey then, but as sunday is the sabbathday and therefor a restingday I begin to do the decorating on the saturday (big sacrefice...).
So I started my saturday with big ambitions. I took out the box with all my electric advent candlesticks och checked the lamps and then I began thinking that two of them really looked boring and  there were just too many red ones anyway so I decided that those who say that "everything gets more beautiful with a bit of white paint " is right, so I started to paint them.
 I left to do something else and when I came back I got this big chock because they were PINK! Hmm. The red paint had obviously bleaded through... I am not a pink person and pink is defenetly not a christmas colour to me, so... This would be something for Mrs L, since she loves pink, but she lives too far away, so I painted another layer and thought that maybe it would get better. It was still pink after that, but not as much and I decided to let it rest so that the paint could really dry, and then I painted them one more time yesterday and finally I was actually satisfied with the result and here it is!

So that was my adventure this week... It kind of took my focus off the decorating so it didn´t get as much of that that I had thought, but there will be more days. On sunday I did pages in my christmas journal for saturday and sunday.

The first page is my thoughts about the whole christmas thing. How much the advent time actually mean to me and that if I take time to enjoy all the things during this time I have much more joy and energy to put in when christmas gets here and it´s quite a lot of work to do when you´re a mother.                                   

The other page is from saturday and it´s about how much I enjoy all the lights and flowers and so.           

Sunday´s page. About how much I love singing the christmas hymns at church each sunday                          in advent.                                                                                                                                                  

Christmas Journal 2010

This is this years Christmas album. It used to be an old dictionary. I stole the idee from Alissa Fast...

My husband asked if I was gonna put something circular over the circle on the book, but I thought that would be a pity, it´s nice to see what the book used to be. Then he came up with this titel idee where I use the old titel, so now it reads "Little dictionary about Christmas 2010". I really like that.

Then I put some nice paper on the inside and fabric on the spine, after tearing out all the old pages, of cause, and fastened a new binding in an interesting way (Mr A got them from his workshop). You can see them on the first picture. I´m really pleased with it. Here´s a sneak of all the pages.

Can´t wait to begin...

December album 2008

I´ve been following Ali Edwards December Daily for a few years and ever made me an album in 2008. I´ve also followed Shimelle´s Journal Your Christmas on a distance, like following Alissas blog, but this year I`m actually in for real. Here`s a sneak of my 2008 album.

I`ll be back with a sneak of the foundation of my 2010 album tomorrow I hope.

My style

I´m a storyteller and I guess that shows in my scrapbooking. With a big family there are so many stories to be told that I don´t have time fuzzing too much over each page. And I love letters and writing and that shows too. I always write by hand, it´s much faster and  I like handwriting. This is my one of my latest layouts.

I just have to tell about the funny conversation between  Mr A and Master E at this perticular, long  journey: "E: How far is it? A: But we just started! E: You´re lying!! Later: E: How far is it? A: We must go just as far as we´ve already gone. E: Oh, rats! " My dear boy. After that he didn´t complain at all.

Hello everybody!

My very first entry on my very own blog! Welcome. Let me introduce myself - my name is Monica, I`m 50 years old and I´m from Sweden. I´m married and the mother of eight children. I love and need to be creative and love scrapbooking, but also sewing and gardening. And now I´d like to share my creations with you. How fun that will be!